Tuesday, August 9, 2005
Breakfast: organic apple granola and a nectarine. Set up shared calendaring. Lunch with Joel at that Vietnamese restaurant on Irving. We both had bun bo xao, Joel had a Diet Coke. Chris's laptop. Home. Mac setup: set power settings so that the Mac no longer goes to sleep. If I decide to turn on Personal Web Sharing in the Sharing control panel it ought to be smart enough to suggest that the power settings automatically be set appropriately for a web server, but I had to set this manually. I spent the next 4.5 hours trying to figure out why mod_rewrite wouldn't work and how to access my web root from Windows through file sharing. Eventually I got all kinds of errors I wasn't expecting to get with a Mac: "You don't have permission to access / on this server" and "fopen permission denied" and "httpd could not open error log file" and "skipping user" and "Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE." I ended up hating the Mac for reminding me of OpenBSD. I plan to reinstall from the CD tomorrow because I can't figure this out myself and I don't want to deal with tech support. These errors should simply not be happening to me—that's why I bought a Mac! The poster said, "The power of UNIX. The simplicity of Mac." Chris C, AT and T DSL, ask for "clear radius" to reset faulty DSL.